A Sweet New Year

October 3rd, 2008

Since I had a show in Miami last Thursday I decided to celebrate 5769 at my parents house in South Florida. While perusing the internets I came across this recipe for a homemade honey cake and was thinking maybe I’d make my first ever cake from scratch.

What’s that?

Oh. 32 in March, why do you ask?

Yes I have a kitchen.

Um, yes, of course I like cake.

I DO SO have self-respect!

My family just doesn’t really bake, we always have carvel cakes for birthdays. I just never got into it, I don’t know. Also, I dislike using machines and I foolishly thought you needed to use mixers and stuff to make a cake, likely because my husband is the family baker and he is way into gadgets.

Now I knew the cake was going to be good because besides all the rave reviews on Smitten I got a real life review from my friend Jessica who was on the Miami show with me. A fellow chosen person, we were chatting about family traditions for the holidays and I sent her the link to the cake. She made it Sunday and called me Monday morning on her way to work saying that it was delicious and smells amazing. Then she sent me an email to follow up. Seriously! They loved this cake!

We ALWAYS have honey cake on the holiday, but its ALWAYS packaged and dry and boring and tasteless so making a cake from scratch (!) seemed kind of exciting. Plus the recipe looked super easy and its all stuff we usually have on hand at my house. 

The Honey Cake Experiment

Step 1 – Make sure we have all the ingredients.

We have none of the ingredients. Except the honey. We have tons of honey.

Off to Target to pick up a cake pan because we didn’t have that either. Mom and I decided on a bundt for fun and smartly I asked if she had measuring cups and spoons. Good thing.

Then I loaded up the cart at Publix with every single ingredient on the list. My mother was apalled that I put cinnamon in the cart because OF COURSE WE HAVE CINNAMON! 

Once we had all of the exotic hard to find ingredients we were good to go.

 

Step 2 – Mix all the stuff in a bowl. With a whisk! You don’t need a fancy mixer for honey cake people!

Step 3- Put it in the oven and make your house smell like a yankee candle

Step 4 – take it out and make sure it doesn’t all stick to the top. Whoops. 

I really don’t know what happened. It was a non-stick pan with PAM. I served it anyway of course, we are not a family of Martha Stewarts.

The reviews:

Mom – “It’s delicious! Really delicious!”

Dad – “Its delicious! But maybe too much cinnamon? But delicious!”

Grandma – “You MADE this cake?”

Poppy – “Why isn’t it a loaf? Cut me another slice”

Me – There was too much cinnamon. I didn’t love the bundt. 

Thanks for the good times honey cake! See you in 5770!

 

 

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